Music — April 22, 2015 10:54 — 0 Comments

Three Songs To The Head vol. 29

Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring Fog People, Robb Benson and Industrial Revelation.

Enjoy!

–Jake Uitti

 

“My Turn” by Fog People feels like an 80’s challenge. It’s as if I just had a frozen French bread pizza, watched The Breakfast Club and now I have to rock out next to some nice ladies in leggings. The jam is energizing, mesmerizing and forceful. Challenge accepted, I will head bang! Amidst dancing I will also appreciate all the people in this odd video singing and dancing along. It’s like we’re in a community of weird 80’s challenge acceptors!

Rumor has it Robb Benson is working on new recordings with his stellar band, Stereo Embers. In the mean time, let us appreciate some of his solo work under the moniker, Shelk. “The Middletons” is a trippy spaced-out fuzzy tune that reminds me somehow of Julia Massey. Benson says he wrote and recorded it after a Neutral Milk Hotel show, a band this Seattle son gets compared to regularly. Thank goodness for all that Robb can do with a guitar, his voice and a little rhythm. He’s as prolific as a rain forest.

The first time I listened to this live Industrial Revelation track, “Ingathering,” the fellow next to me said, “Oh, they’ve picked up where Miles Davis left off.” Makes sense – I.R. seems to be, consciously or unconsciously, creating a bridge from jazz into something new, something unnamed. Regardless of what’s happening under the surface, it’s always a joy to hear the four-piece play. They’re all stars and we’re lucky for their light. And word has it they have a show tonight.

Bio:

Jake Uitti is a founding editor of The Monarch Review.

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